Rafael Angel Cowley Valdés-Machado
Los Tres primeros historiadores de la Isla de Cuba. Reproduccion de las Historias de D. José Martin Félix de Arrate y D. Antonio José Valdés y publicacion de la inédita del Dr. D. Ignacio Urrutia y Montoya, adicionadas con multitud de notas y aumentadas con descripciones historicas de la mayor parte de las ciudades, villas y pueblos de esta isla que en ellas se mencionan[The First Three Historians of the Island of Cuba. A reproduction of the histories by Don José Martín Félix de Arrate and Don Antonio José Valdés, together with the first publication of the unpublished work of Dr. Don Ignacio Urrutia y Montoya, enriched with numerous notes and augmented with historical descriptions of most of the cities, towns, and villages of this island mentioned therein]
Andres Pego|La Habana [La Havane [Havana]] 1876-1877|17.5 x 25.2 cm|3 volumes reliés
New edition, embellished at the close of the first volume with a folding plate printed out of text (cf. Palau 17346).
Cherry half-shagreen bindings, spines with four raised false bands decorated with gilt fillets and double gilt panels, gilt lettering at the foot of the spines, slight rubbing to the headcaps, blind-tooled frames on the textured cloth boards, pebble-paper endpapers and pastedowns, a few bumped corners, period bindings.
Rear board of the first volume partially soiled.
New edition prepared under the supervision of the physician Rafael Ángel Cowley Valdés-Machado (1837–1908) and Andrés Pego, gathering three major sources for Cuban historiography: José Martí
€1,000